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The White House says the veto pen will be ready should a health repeal bill pass.

The ultra-conservative web site Redstate.com is reporting that the 112th Congress will take up a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act on Jan. 12, exactly one week after the newly sworn-in House Speaker-elect John Boehner takes his gavel from outgoing Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The bill, attributed to Rep. Eric Cantor, is a rifle shot to any possibility of bipartisanship. It’s called “The ‘Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.”

Redstate poster Josh Emanuel treats the law like red meat, saying the bill “channels the American people’s opposition to the massive government power grab that Obama perpetrated, with the assistance of several Democrat Political Suicide Bombers with the passage of his massive (and largely unread) health care law.”

Emanuel is a conservative pundit and president of Lighthouse Strategies and Consulting, Inc., a media consulting firm.

Conservatives have acknowledged that with a Democrat-controlled Senate and Obama in office, their hopes of a successful repeal are limited. But the “repeal” bill is meant to energize their base, attract Tea Party conservatives who abhor the notion of mandatory health insurance, and launch the start of a slow campaign to kill health reform through 1,000 cuts – primarily by obstructing the spending appropriations needed to implement it.

In Washington, Democrats were reportedly in strategy sessions, with talk of using legislative procedures to force Republicans to take an up or down vote on the repeal of every single element of health reform, since the individual provisions poll with much greater popularity than the act in its entirety. A ban on insurance recisions for pre-existing conditions is popular, as is a provision to cover dependents to age 26, and one to reduce the costs of prescription drugs for seniors who fall into the Medicare doughnut hole.

The White House says the President won’t be timid about using his veto pen, should it be required.